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You Think Airline Service is Bad? Try Taking the Bus

Heart of the Customer

My daughter was home from college this holiday break, and wanted to visit her brother in Ames, Iowa, about four hours away. That started a series of inexcusable events that makes a CX enthusiast shudder in disbelief. As we’re a one-car family, she elected to take the bus. It started when I went to buy her ticket.

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Is The Move to Self-Service Better For Your Organization Or The Customer?

Beyond Philosophy

These examples bring me to the most critical question every organization should ask: is the move to self-service going to make customers’ lives easier? Improvements to the Customer Experience are secondary to saving the company money. However, self-service can also be an opportunity to improve the customer experience.

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How to Improve Government-to-Citizen Engagement in 2022

Comm100

Unfortunately, these interactions have become synonymous with poor, and even terrible, customer experience (CX). . In their look at how government organizations in the US are introducing chatbots , Government Technology saw significant savings in resources among state governments, including Minnesota and Iowa: .